An unlikely pair of drag queens and an older transsexual get a job to bring their lip sync extravaganza to a remote town in the Australian outback. So they buy an old bus, paint it in outrageous colors and go on a a road trip that will change their lives — and the lives of the people they meet — forever. It’s a wacky story with a killer soundtrack that somehow gets raised to the level of art (albeit campy art) by the performances of the leading men, three guys’ guys who are more at home on screen undressing women than dressing up as them. Hugo Weaving (The Matrix) and Guy Pearce (L.A. Confidential) are excellent, but it is the heartbreaking, yet heroic, performance of Terrence Stamp as the aging Bernadette that steals the show.
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